Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-03
"GRI,N14s Is BLAYED OUD."
The German Barber Discusses Holt
~tt" DAY Pleasures.

~~@ day Pleasures.
NEW YORK, Jan. IA great manv
persons have asked why nothing Is heard
from the German barber near the Cooper
Institute. It's year since he has been
Interviewed. There is reason for his
silence and this Christmas-New-Year's
season brings 1t to mind.
"Grismae is played Oud for me-" he
says; u would rather got der spinal COM
baint than near word aloud sandy
CLAWS. | will tole you how dot vos, al
retty. Last year. chOost pefore Grismas,
my leedle daughter vos NIT me here in
der BACK uf der shop. She would sit Ply
me and ask questions vich would knock
der sduffin from Philadelphia lawyer
oud, und | would try to answer her so dot
she should not see how pig fool 1 vOs-
like negro CLERGYMAN drying 10 oXbafn
der Bible. But | vos happy uf | could
choost sit und look at her. Her eyes were
pig und piue und deep like windows in der
soul uf an angel, her hair vOs golden und
her shkiu vos fair like der Leaf vi light
rose. We we're chOOst like a couple
uf shildren together, so dot whenever We
made 100 much noises by der house my
wife would say:
"'Vot can | do NIT der two uf you?
Bote uf you ought to get der same Whip
ping
Der consequence uf dot vos she
couldn't lick me, 80 bote uf us got off NIT
chawing. Den comes der day benlud
last Grismas und Kadv is blayng der
sdreet outside. Quick, like lightning,
comes a scream, und from der houses
come tum Oing der men, ylmmen and
shildren vot got always some one else's
peezuess to daEe care OF. 1t is Kady.
She has been on dop of bile ut lumber
and now der bile uf lumber is on dOp uf
her. | am choust in time 10 see der last
blanks lifted away und couple OF men
are dragging ner Oud alretiy.
"Ach Gott She is more vhiter now
as der snow, excepting some plo0d vich
drlckes owt OF her mouth. Dem men
dake her in leede shop und lay her der
counter on top. Her head is placed on a
box fdolls der same vot she had promised
me | should buy for her Grismas. Her
feet vos on der same cbumping-chackv web
she had been sating her pennies up TO gil
10 a leedle playmate. Der store is
crowded nit be0ples. push dem aside
like dust from der front Nv broom.
"'Kady! kadyp | screamed, Don't
you know your poor old farder, alretty?
But she could not know nOding5 any
more by dis World. Tor she vOs dead.
''ChoOst dot time comes a woman up
NIT nose ptue like a japanese tea cup,
and to me she says: our snlld, enV
81 don't know whose she is now |
saws. she used to been mine.'
"'YOu should be danktul she vos
token away from dis sinful world oud,'
she sayt.
81 chumped almost dot vooman's troat
down, vas so mat.
"'Dankiulr l screamed. 'Dankful?
DON'T talk some more like dot to me or
viii haul off und-und-let you know vOt
dink OF such nuisance Vimmens like
you. Vot do you mean by insulding der
common sense OF a man chOOst when he
louses der insite uf his heart out? Git
away or / shall make two funerals out uf
Won.
81 vos fool to got myselluf 30 excited,
but vot kind uf humbug idea is dot vich
shah ask a man chOOsJ whom he stands
bis dead shild alongside uf he don't feel
like brass band on picnic alratty, be-
cause she has had her haDby leetle life
smashed out by tOusand feet uf lumber
ana he sees der world grow dark arount
MIN like cOalbole."
That is why the barber kept silent a
year, and who snail say he had not
good reason. JULIAN RALPH.